From a distance, this suburban Shell station looks like any other fuel stop, but the closer you get, the weirder it becomes. On the roof, there's a trident-wielding merman and a large, upside-down melting ice cream cone. The storefront underneath is a riot of color, featuring a giant nutcracker on a toy block, a massive fiberglass chicken, a spotted red mushroom, and ...

Tourists who partake of the free ferry ride to Staten Island should delay getting right back on the boat to Manhattan, and instead take a short walk outside to the National Lighthouse Museum.

Located just southeast of the ferry terminal, the Lighthouse Museum is rather modest in stature, occupying a small building on what was once the United States Lighthouse S...

Completed in 1981 for the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the structure was officially known as the Forschungseinrichtung für Experimentelle Medizin. Its purpose was highly specialized: the building housed thousands of laboratory animals—mostly mice, but also rats, rabbits, and other species—used in biomedical r...

A devil's face peers out from the façade of a building on Linnégatan, one of Gothenburg's historic main streets. Grimacing from the wall, an ornamental mask allegedly installed by a local developer in the late 1800s serves as a subtle moral protest against Oscar II and his rumored escapades opposite. 

Local legend holds that King Oscar II used an apartment...

Aptly located on Yee Kuk Street, meaning 'street of a medical institute', the two storey Sham Shui Po Public Dispensary building is one of Hong Kong's few remaining art deco-style buildings.

After an influx of immigrants from mainland China settled in Sham Shui Po during the early 20th century, the district's previous clinic was deemed inadequate. Fun...